In June 2024, the Port of Barcelona established its own new historical record of monthly container traffic having handled a volume of 355,149 TEUs, with a significant increase +26.3% on June 2023 and with an increase of almost 7 thousand TEUs compared to the previous historical peak last March. The new record was reached thanks to the strong rise of +62.9% of containers transshipped in the Catalan port of call, which are amounted to 175,231 TEUs, while containers imported and exports grew by +3.6% to 179,917 TEUs.

The new monthly record for containerized traffic is not such if this flow of loads is evaluated in terms of weight. Last month, in fact, the 3.47 million tons of container goods handled represent a marked increase in by +25.2%, but only the fifth largest volume of containers ever in a month.

In addition, this year the Port of Barcelona has also established the new quarterly and semi-annual containerized traffic records, both in terms of 20-foot containers and tons lively. In the second quarter of 2024, in fact, the airport For the first time, the threshold of one million TEUs has been exceeded moved in three months, marking an increase of +24.3% on the previous year. same period in 2023, traffic that in terms of weight is was equal to about 10.2 million tons (+19.9%). In the first In the first half of this year, record traffic amounted to almost two million TEUs (+23.6%) with 19.9 million tons of containerized cargo handled (+20.2%).

In the first six months of 2024, total freight traffic was amounted to 34.9 million tonnes (+10.3%), including 6.7 million tonnes tonnes of liquid bulk (+0.8%), 2.3 million tonnes of dry bulk (-13.3%) and almost six million tonnes of conventional goods (+3.8%).

In the first half of this year, the traffic of cruise passengers was 1.5 million people (+6.2%) and that of ferry passengers of 662 thousand people (+3.1%).